Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-26
THE MYSTERY SOLVED.
An Unnatural Fathers Tempo
rarfly IRsane-Bi6 for Sur
veys Waited.
special to WS HINRR..-
CAPITAL HAPPENINGS,
Mystery of tho Hsf-Buried Infant Solved
"A Case ofTempor.ry Ins.n-
ity-Bles for Surveying.

ity-Bles for Surveying.
HELENA, Mach 19.-1'he mystery sur
rounding last sundays find OF the body o
new born ifant in Dry Gulch, where il
had been rplely and hastily buried by
some then unknown person, has beer
solved, and the following brutal and inhu
man factsin relation of the affair revealed
mainly through the efforts OF one of the In.
dependent staff reporters: At late hour
on the niht of February 9, DR.. Rockman
was calld by a young German named
Freund t the bedside of his wife, who he
said wal dangerously i'll. Freund lives
about mile and a half from town, and
when tn doctor arrived at the house he
found lew born baby upon the cold bare
floor AM the mother lying upon bed and
both mo'e than half dead from cold and in
attention. By vigorous application he and
the doctt tr soon restored them both to as
comfortable state as possible under the
circumstances, and when he left the house
shortly dterward the child was particu-
larly CON ented and apparently in a healthy
state. I lxo days afterward the father
called up'n the physician. stating that his
child waadead and that he wanted a gallon
OF alcohd to preserve it in. The doctor
told himthat such an act would not be
right noipermitted, but that it must be
properlyburied. Freund left the doctors
Office ant no more was thought of the mat
ter until the circumstance was recalled by
the finding of the body OF the child. The
body of the infant was kept about the
house TO- over a month and then stealth
lily disposed of in the manner already
known. Neither of it's parents can speak
word Il English, but through interpreters
the fath,r unhesitatingly made full con-
fession d the facts, stating that the child
died tie next day after birth
and that he had desired to pickle it for his
wife, but after visiting the doctor and
that it must be buried, he deter
mined to keep it until the glound thawed
sufficiently to enable him to easily bury
it. A portion of the time it was kept out
side under the porch, 80 that it would
freeze. Finally, on Saturday night, the
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He did moi get coffin, because he did not
think it worth burying. The mother claims
to have had nothing to do with this heart
less procedure, and no knowledge OF the
in which her offspring was disposed.
She says she intends to leave him because
of his inhuman and brutal treatment OF
1er, and will go back to Germany.
The friends of Civil Engineer Haven. who
vas mentioned among those injured in the
Buffalo hotel fire, have as yet been unable
20 receive any replies to numerous mes
'ages sent to him and to the Chief OF Police
If Buffalo, inquiring in regard to his condi-
ion, and are becoming uneasy.
w. w. Smith, the man who was indicted
~ the last Grand Jury for assault COM
nitted on his wife with intent to kill, was
|ecided to be temporarily insane before the
Probate Court, and he will be at once sent
o the asylum, and nolle prosequi en-
cred in the action against him.
Surveyor General Green has advertised
or bids for government surveys amount
ng to SIS, 900, the proposals for which
nust be all handed in by April 18th. A
'ortion of the land to be surveyed includes
he timber land near Missoula, from which
he Montana Improvement Company has
een taking timber. The surveys will have
definite bearing upon the cases now pend
og against that company for cutting the
imber from the land which is claimed by
he Government.